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Anya Taylor-Joy Details All the Times She's Changed Crying Scenes to Express Female Rage in Her Movies

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It was written that her character, Thomasin, would cry during a scene in which she is dragged through her family’s farmyard after she’s accused of being an evil presence inside her home. She’d do it again during The Menu, when the script called for her character to have a single tear rolling down her cheek when she discovers that her date has brought her to lavish private dinner with the intention of having her die. “It was Anya ’s idea for Olga to douse her hand with her own menstrual blood before slapping Fjölnir in the face,” the director Robert Eggers revealed, adding that he knew it was the right call because it was a “very strong, defiant and memorable choice.”

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